Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick reads a poem during a commemorative event of prayer and reflection for the victims of the Westminster attack

How have male colleagues in the Metropolitan Police reacted to her promotion?

The Sunday Times reported that Dick said she still met men who seemed "threatened, baffled and confused" by her position.

Once, she remembered, she and other officers went to a talk by Eliza Manningham-Buller, the second female director of MI5.

She recalls feeling surprised when her colleagues started "talking about her [Manningham Buller] as if she was a governess or a dominatrix".

She said: "I long for the day when we can all be ourselves, whoever we are, and express ourselves in whatever way we like, and we don't have these kinds of funny constraints in our heads that make us feel 'Ooh, there's a different power relationship because that's a man and that's a woman'."

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Who is her partner?

Cressida Dick has a partner called Helen.

She also works for the Met Police, serving as a response team inspector at a police station in a busy south London borough.

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